Toot

A deep operative likes to mention that the weekend is the time to go on a 'toot.'

In this context, a toot is a bender - you spend the weekend blowing your paycheck on women and booze.

Eventually Monday rolls around and the anticipation and longing builds for the upcoming toot.

Its tragic and its a fatally flawed strategy for progressing along in one's life, usually.

Its also a very present and contemporary strategy. I suspect its bigger than ever. Who is to judge, not I, but I do have opinions.

The toot of this weekend goes to -

Drunken Man Awakes Inside Garbage Truck

William M. Bowen woke up after a night of drinking with friends and realized he was inside a commercial trash-collection truck full of waste.

The driver had just emptied a commercial trash bin into his truck and was about to activate its compactor when he heard Bowen screaming.

"He looked up and this gentleman was standing out the top of our truck," said Larry Green, market safety supervisor for the Rumpke waste disposal company. Green said the only thing Bowen said to the driver was that he was cold.

"This gentleman was extremely intoxicated," he said.